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The First Immutable Law of Security: If Israel can convince your website to serve their ad, it's no longer your computer. It now belongs to Netanyahu. It's revelations like these that make me keep my dns-level ad-blocker active. I prefer my PC to not be a pawn in a Likud-instigated genocide
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The important thing to remember here is that in the early days of personal computing, lots of software was widely and freely exchanged. Microsoft hated this and worked hard to shift both culture and law against free software but they could never quite kill it totally dead.
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Tinie Tempah says he will finally visit Scunthorpe after campaign by fans
BBC Verify have come out with their analysis of the Ukraine Yandex data centre attacks. Their verdict: the perceived reduction in online toxicity you think you're seeing is largely a placebo effect. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Really bad idea for Labour to call an early general election with these polling numbers. They'll lose their majority at least.
General Election Nowcast - 11/10/26: LAB: 299 (-112) | 27.2% (27 Short) RFM: 100 (+95) | 23.1% CON: 95 (-26) | 19.6% LDM: 70 (-2) | 9.8% SNP: 43 (+34) | 2.7% PLC: 8 (+4) | 1.1% GRN: 7 (+3) | 9.6% RES: 1 (+1) | 3.8% Oth: 8 (+3) | 3.1% electionmaps.uk/nowcast
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'Crude oil exports from strait of Hormuz largely return to pre-war levels' Morning. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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I'd say cite them all for the offence of assisting an offender. That, and perverting the course of justice.
NEW: Far-right activists are mobilising in Basingstoke following the arrest of Daniel Thomas, aka Danny Tommo. Thomas was arrested after a video appeared to show him slashing a dinghy in the Channel while an emergency responder was still on board. Here’s what we know. 🧵
Great. We can add Racially aggravated criminal damage H/S violations Obstructing emergency services Knife offences Reckless driving Malicious comms Assault / gbh Attempted murder(?) To the potential charges. Gonna be a lo-o-ong 2nd(!) jail sentence on conviction (and he streamed his own guilt).
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy with blade while rescue worker onboard
Because of Youtube's introduction of "engaged views", its homepage now be like:
Since Aug 24, YouTube counts a view from the first frame, autoplay included. The old, stricter count is now "engaged views," and three podcast ad agencies say that's all they'll buy on. If your video podcast views jumped, this is why. podnews.net/update/engag...
GenAI has taken over game dev in Japan, now used by 86% of game devs according to a CESA survey. www.techspot.com/news/113892-...
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One day, I suppose I'll run out of hormones to boil my blood, which boils every time I read something new about the lies regarding the MMR vaccine (a proven lie, from a disgraced fraudster who abused his credentials to push his snake oil scam). Today's not that day.
There’s no evidence that vaccines cause autism, or that we should separate MMR shots. This order is dangerous
This form of wage theft has started to happen more frequently in the games industry, firing the devs to reap their bonuses. Ever since Activision set the precedent in MW2, Krafton opened the floodgates with subnautica 2. EA's done the same with Battlefield 6, as has Delphi with netflix world cup.
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My gut feeling is that these Reform voters are convinced the £5m scandal is The Establishment trying to fit their guy up and so they're socking it to The Man by behaving like this. That their guy IS The Man will forever be beyond them.
More evidence that Reform voters are not like other people in the UK. Show them some potential corruption and they’re all in.
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The Labour Party are leading in the electionmapsuk Voting Intention Tracker for the first time since March 2025: 🌹 LAB: 24.4% ➡️ RFM: 24.2% 🌳 CON: 19.9% 🌍 GRN: 11.5% 🔶 LDM 11.1% ◼️ RES: 2.7% electionmaps.uk/polling/vi
Nature respects no national borders and only discriminates land by flammable vs non-flammable. Thanks to the heatwave of 2026, Europe's wildfires are <9 miles away from Bordeaux. Is that proposal of naming heatwaves after the fossil fuel companies responsible, still going ahead?
Why are Reform reporting the Green Party Leader over the post? If their alarm is with the guy in an offensive top, report the guy in the top, not the party. The guy is the one wearing the "menacing message" top. Trying to pin this on Polanski is akin to shooting the messenger.
Reform UK say they are reporting Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police after he shared a post to his Instagram which included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine
It's copium, but even if Jodrell Bank ceases its science research, the observatory's status as a world heritage site will help keep the telescopes preserved, and protected from demolition.
This one's pretty significant, being the remaining thorny issue in this AI copyright case: "US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit" But before it becomes precedent, "Some authors have opted out and have filed separate ongoing lawsuits against Anthropic"
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Replying to @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social
The Reflecting Swamp The pool drained has uncovered the lie, Though the Felon-in-Chief will still try. After bluster and pomp, He just made some more swamp While support is again running dry. www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
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Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis
Welcome to the latest consequence of the climate emergency: British wildfires. Barely a week after the wildfires of Spain (+ France, Greece, Italy, Portugal), which are already bigger than last year's record-setting fires. The wildfires are creeping north.
An extreme wildfire risk is in place across London this weekend. Please follow London Fire Brigade advice: ❌ No disposable BBQs in parks & open spaces 🚬 Dispose of cigarettes carefully 🗑️ Take rubbish home if bins are full Together we can help the London Fire Brigade save lives.
Heatwave III: The Search For Global Warming's Cause. It's Big Oil🛢️
Survived the June heatwave? Met Office are already warning of another heatwave in two weeks🫠 With spring blossoms and summer heatwaves starting earlier every year, we might have to add a fifth season to the meteorological calendar before long. Call it es scorchio🥵
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social feels like the ultimate revenge of the Labour Left who never forgave the rest of the party for abandoning Corbynism and being more pragmatic in order to win voters. Their obsession with an ideological purity the public rejected has probably just handed Farage the keys to #10.
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It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.
Comparing coverage of the Belfast and Edinburgh attacks, it seems that if politicians politicise and racialise a crime, then it will get far more attention than a crime that is in itself political and racist but doesn’t serve a political agenda. That’s not a good message
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Reform: The Paedophile Supporter Party. Turns out when their supporters tried to smear Labour's Harman with a Paedophile Information Exchange association, Reform were the paedo supporters all along.
And in case you still think that Harman was a supporter of the Paedophile Information Exchange...👇
It’s not true. It’s a 2014 Daily Mail lie. From 1978 to 1982 Harman was legal officer at NCCL, predecessor of Liberty. The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was granted affiliate status with NCCL in 1975. BEFORE Harman. Hence: “I'm not going to apologise. I've got nothing to apologise for"